Changed Circle
by Warringer
Chapter Twenty Two
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"I can confirm that. Two Primus and nine Vorchan."
Sheridan looked at Rommel, before looking back at Lennon and G'Kar.
"What the hell ate the Centauri doing here."
"Crash the party, I guess," they just destroyed the Narn transport."
G'Kar looked like he was about to get pale, but since he was reptilian in origin, it was a problem.
"And one Vorchan fired missiles at our position."
"Shit," Sheridan cursed," take them out."
"Yes, Captain, oh my Captain."
Sheridan glared at Rommel, while Lennon and G'Kar looked puzzled at the two.
"Taking out?" Lennon asked," What?"
G'Kard shook his head at his old friend.
"Lets just say that we all tend to underestimate the humans."
A deafening roar suddenly went of in short distance to the bunker and Lennon twitched. The roar was followed by a loud explosion and a few moments after that another explosion rather close to the bunker, shaking it.
"The good new is that I manged to intercept the missiles," Rommel said and Lennon stared at him as if he had grown another head," The bad new are that the debris of one missile managed to hit and destroy your shuttle, Mr. Lennon."
"How?"
Sheridan shook his head and started to run towards the entrance of the bunker.
"Later, we must get to Lexington."
"What?"
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Lennon felt more than a bit overwhelmed. The had just passed his burning shuttle in a mad run towards the small hill next to the bunker system, as the hill simply disappeared and revealed a large Terran Cruiser. He could even read the name painted onto the hull in large letters. Lexington.
How had the humans been able to repair the ship that fast? The battle of Zendamor had happened only four weeks ago and the trip from Zendamor to Earth lasted about a week.
He briefly noticed that he should be glad for the lower gravity of Edding, or he would have been even more winded as they reached a large lift underneath the large bulk of the Terran Cruiser.
How in Valen's name had the Terran been able to land a ship that large on a planet? It had to wight more than two Mega tons.
Lennon heard a loud clang as the lift closed behind him and noticed how Sheridan looked at Rommel.
"We have lift of. We will reach free space in about two minutes. Tactical is working on firing sollutions."
Sheridan nodded and litteraly shot out of the lift as the door opened. G'Kar shrugged and followed Sheridan. Lennon felt that it would be best to also follow Sheridan. He also noticed that Rommel disappeared into another direction.
About a minute later they were standing on the Bridge of Lexington and while G'Kar and Lennon himself looked rather winded, Sheridan didn't.
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"Status report," Sheridan demanded as he entered the bridge of Lexington and made a beeline towards the Fennec-morph Avatar of Rommel.
"We have several more missile launches from other Vorchans to the planet, while the Primus' are linding up for something that looks like orbital bombardment."
"Why?"
"No idea. But it seems that the Primus' are outfitted with massdrivers."
"Massdrivers," camefrom behind from G'Kar.
"Whatever they want," Rommel said," they want it destroyed big time."
Sheridan nodded. Massdrivers were outlawed by almost everyone in Known Space. Just the Terran Union hadn't signed the ban of those weapons, because a good amount of weapons, such as the MACs were based on Massdriver technology and would rob them their most efficiant weapons.
"Ten seconds for orbit."
"Status of the firing sollutions?"
"Allmost there, Major. But we got a nice crackshot at one of the Primus' with our spinal mounts."
Sheridan smiled an evil smile and Lennon and G'Kar felt like hiding somewhere, while the crew managed to ignore it.
"Fire spinal mounts," he said at the exactly same time as Lexington reached the outer reachers of Edding's atmosphere and entered orbital space.
Two MACs and one 1000 centimeter Mega Graser opened fire at the first Primus, the graser simply vaporizing huge amounts of frontal armor and the bow, while the two MAC disks slammed into the wings of the massive Centauri battleship, simply ripping them of, reducing the mighty ship to not much more than scrap metal.